Summer Reading Challenge 2020 Kickoff!

It’s that time again – the Swash Labs Summer Reading Challenge has officially begun! This year, we seem to have more time at home than ever (see: global pandemic), so the least we can do is spend some of it with our noses in good books.

We’re kicking things off by sharing our TBR, or To Be Read, lists. Also known as, that stack of books you keep adding to despite the fact that it’s already 10 titles deep...

So, will we make it through our stacks? Will unexpected additions to the lists take precedence? Will quarantine turn us into reading machines?? Stay tuned to find out!

Josh’s list:

• The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

• 1984 by George Orwell

• The Tradition by Jericho Brown

• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison

• Keep Calm and Log On by Gus Andrews

• How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

• Pixar Storytelling by Dean Movshovitz

• Where Did It All Go Wrong? Adventures At The Dunning Kruger Peak Of Advertising by Eaon Pritchard

• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

• The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

Joan’s list:

• The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal

• Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, Vol. 1 & 2 by John L. Stephens

• The Indian Heritage of America by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

• Rather Outspoken by Dan Rather

Diana’s List:

• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

• Aloha Rodeo by David Wolman and Julian Smith

• The Women With Silver Wings by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

• The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates

• My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

• Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen by Liliuokalani

• Accepting by Jeff Vandermeer

Nico’s list:

• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

• Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View by various authors

• Cobra by Timothy Zahn

• Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund

• 1984 by George Orwell

Andi’s List:

• Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

• Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

• #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE by Nicole Byer

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

• The Truth of Revolution, Brother by Robin Ryde

• Denvoid and the Cowtown Punks by Bob Rob Medina

Faith’s List:

• The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! by Gloria Steinem

• A Burning by Megha Majumdar

• Play As It Lays by Joan Didion

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

• The Last Flight by Julie Clark

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett